Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.

. . perhaps the greatest satisfaction on the first day of the season is the knowledge in the evening that the whole of the rest of the season is to come.

Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth.

...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

I fished a little while ago with a man, not in his first youth, who had wasted the flower of his life on business and golf and gardening and motoring and marriage, and had in this way postponed his initiation (to fly fishing) far too long.

Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.